Police: Man dead after logging accident

A West Leyden man is dead after a logging incident Thursday evening, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said.

A West Leyden man is dead after a logging incident Thursday evening, the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office said.

Alvin Weiler, 59, was hired to log Robert Costella’s property off the south side of East Ava Road, deputies said.

When Weiler did not return home, his family because concerned and went to where he was working, deputies said.

After the family arrived, they found Weiler in the woods and then alerted authorities, deputies said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said.

It appeared Weiler had cut a tree and then it became entangled with other trees, deputies said. Weiler then began cutting another tree in that general area, deputies said. When he was cutting the second tree, the first tree fell and landed on another tree, which fell and struck Weiler in the head, deputies said.